NAME¶
zoomer — generate a video from a picture by zooming from one point to
another
SYNOPSIS¶
zoomer options...
DESCRIPTION¶
zoomer automatically generates a video from a picture. It starts at the
full picture and then zooms into the first point. Then zooms out and into the
next point, etc. At the moment of reaching a point, zoomer will write a text
(e.g. a name).
zoomer needs a picture (bigger is better) and a data file to define the
points to be zoomed into.
OPTIONS¶
- --data
- the data file setting the details to be zoomed.
- --debug
- show a verbose output
- --frames-moveing
- how many frames between details
- --frames-stoped
- how many frames focused on the detail
- --font-size
- the size of the text
- --output
- the name of the output video
- --pic
- the name of the input picture (bigger is better)
- --replace-output
- will automaticaly delete a file with the same output
name
- --use-zenity
- will show a nice graphical progress bar
- --video-size
- the video resolution in the WxH notation like
480x360
THE DATA FILE¶
The data file is a simple text file to provide informaton about where zoomer
must zoom. There must be one line by detail and no other information. The
zoomer don't supports empty lines or commentaries.
The detail line has the pattern:
X,
Y Width
Text
See a data example:
364,178 57 Bart
233,246 62 Lisa
396,274 52 Maggie
302,059 61 Marge
228,130 66 Homer
The
Width is the with of the soom square. The
Height
will be ever proporcional to the output setted height.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Aurélio A. Heckert aurium@gmail.com for the
Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to
copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, Version 3 any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in /usr/share/common-licenses/.